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The tennis community on Wall Street is extremely tight-knit. At 7 a.m. on Saturday mornings, you can probably find Bill Ackman of Pershing Square and other finance folks playing on the Randall's Island courts.  This wee...

A California developer that was a partner with Lehman Brothers Holding Inc. in several money-losing real estate deals is a key player in Westchester County's long-delayed plan to redevelop the site of a former General Mo...

The UK has long been a popular property investment destination for developers at home and abroad. However, over the past few years it has been attracting particularly large quantities of foreign investment, particularly ...

Odd lots from the varied world of residential real estate:

A new proposal from the Federal Housing Administration would lower mortgage insurance premiums for borrowers who complete homeowner counseling before and after they receive a government-backed mortgage.

Home owners in the UK were already anticipating a rise in interest rates before the governor of the Bank of England warned that the property market is in danger of overheating. This weekend the governor Mark Carney warne...

A roundup of commercial real-estate transactions from across the tri-state region.

The Swiss bank, which has large investment banking operations in New York, will also pay about $2.6 billion in penalties and hire an independent monitor for up to two years.

After nude photos of Miss Teen USA were captured last year by 20-year-old hacker Jared James Abrahams, a global investigation has been looking into the use of personal webcams to spy on individuals. According to The Tele...

The U.S. government is partnering with Texas researchers to drive out a coffee fungus that has caused $1 billion in damage to plants across Latin America and the Caribbean, which has helped to drive up prices for the com...

Soybeans futures rise on signs that supplies remain tight; Metals prices edge higher

Everytown for Gun Safety, the gun control group backed by former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, is calling on the Chipotle restaurant chain to crack down on guns in its stores. In an email sent Monday titled "Burritos...

The U.S. government has finally backed up its boast that no bank is too big to jail, if by "jail" you mean "vigorously slap on the wrist." The Justice Department on Monday filed criminal charges accusing Swiss banking gi...

Edward Snowden is set to become immortalized in his very own comic book, "Beyond: Edward Snowden." The story, written by Marvel Comic's "Punisher" writer Valerie D'Orazio, is focused on exploring Snowden's motivations f...

With 65 Michelin-starred restaurants — seven of which hold three star ratings — and more impressive new establishments opening up year after year, New York City is the gourmand capital of America. It's easy to see...

It would be nice if we could tackle inequality with a growth approach and without some sacrifices from the wealthy, but that path simply doesn't exist.

A reading list.

What does a mainland company really mean when it tells shareholders that 20 out of 23 investment banks give a "buy" rating? Consider the case for real estate developer Greentown China, whose chairman Song Weiping, said h...

After years of delays and legal battles, Anglo-Australian miner says it is ready to finalise Simandou project in Guinea

U.S. drugmaker Pfizer announced that it has raised its offer for British rival AstraZeneca for a third time, hiking its stock-and-cash offer by 15 percent to $118.8 billion, or 70.73 billion pounds.

Q: I live in a town home community association where the board contracted with a new management firm within the past year. Several of the owners have requested a copy of contracts to which the association is a party, inc...

Guest Post: In an interview with Riley Newman, head of data science at Airbnb, we learned a valuable framework in thinking about concrete ways that data science helped prioritize product decisions and power Airbnb's trem...